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Agatha Christie The Queen of Crime 1890-1976

1926

“ The Queen of Crime”

Miss Marple

Paris

Archibald

Miller

archeologist

apples

nurse

Torquay, Devonshire

"The Mysterious Affair at Styles"

"The Murder of Roger Ackroyd"

1976

Hercule Poirot

She created Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, the most famous detectives

1. other well-known character was Miss Marple

2. became tired of her Belgian detective

3. is a Belgian detective

4. for his moustache

5. knitting, walking around the neighborhood

Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple

In her works Agatha Christie created two great characters. Hercule Poirot … (1)who appeared in 33 of Agatha Christie’s novels. He is best known(2)... Poirot thinks logically and likes order. He examines the crime scene in detail and claims that every crime can be solved.

As time went on Agatha Christie …(3) and wanted to get rid of him. But he was very popular among her readers. When he died in "Curtain" in 1978 he became the only fictional character to get an obituary in the New York Times.

Agatha Christie's …(4), an old woman who wants to be an amateur detective. She likes(5)… and she observes things very carefully. She became famous for solving cases where the police failed. In contrast to Hercule Poirot, Christie was very fond of Miss Marple.

70 crime novels, 19 plays and 6 romantic novels

Some of them

“ THE

DOUBLE

CLUE”